A small boat is steered by means of a tiller fitted to the head of the rudder.
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Tiller
/ˈtɪlə/
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Many early cars used a tiller instead of a steering wheel.
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One, that bore / the brave Orontes and his Lycian crew, / full in AEneas' sight a toppling wave o'erthrew. / Dashed from the tiller, down the pilot rolled. / Thrice round the billow whirled her, as she lay, / then whelmed below.
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And again she gave birth, to his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a tiller of the earth.
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